PHPmac is the largest online resource totally dedicated to Mac users of PHP. From articles and tutorials on enabling supplied PHP to Building and Installing your own PHP with many modules, to using Mac applications to optimise your website, PHPmac has it all.

PHPEclipse brings PHP functionality to the Eclipse platform, enhancing it as an environment for developing web applications and focusing on what PHP web developers need to create an application. This book teaches you:
-Finding your way around the Eclipse environment
-Working with the PHP editing features of PHPEclipse to correct your PHP syntax -Configuring and using the debugger to help troubleshoot PHP code
-Using PHPDocumentor to quickly create documentation for your code
-Interfacing to SQL databases using the QuantumDB plug-in
-Managing your source code repository from within Eclipse
-Deploying your application to production servers via FTP, SFTP, WebDav
-Using Ant to deploy your PHP applications

The title helps the readers understand how they can earn their share of money from the growing field of e-commerce, by offering an indepth information on how to use, build and maintain a good e-commerce web site.The book contains a detailed information on:
-Customizing the osCommerce code to make the site more robust, eliminate bugs, and increase flexibility,
-Underastanding and developing the security and backup strategies,
-Building your business by utilizing various advertising techniques, search engine optimization, affiliate and drop-shipping schemes,
-The principles and methods used by professional programmers to empower you to continue creating and building your online business -Incorporating the RSS feed,
-Hosting the banners on the web site,
-Offering customer discounts and supporting the use of gift certificates,
-Increasing your sales.
More details about the title are available at:
http://www.packtpub.com/professional_oscommerce/book

This book:
--Is a step by step introduction to osCommerce --Helps install and configure osCommerce --Helps in building your first ecommerce website --Is a special Beginnner's edition of the complete Professional Title

Joomla is the world's hottest open-source content management system&the winner of the 2006 Open Source CMS Prize.While Joomla is packed with features,its greatest quality is that it is extremely extensible,allowing any number of complex applications to be cleanly integrated. Forums,social networking profiles,job boards,and real estate listings are all examples of extensions developers have written for Joomla!.All of these can run off one Joomla! site,while only one database,template,and core need to be maintained.When you build an extension to Joomla!,it will inherit the look and feel of the overall site.Any type of program that can be coded in PHP is a potential component waiting to be written!
What you will learn from this book:-
*Code Joomla!components,modules ,and plugins from the ground up
*Create toolbars,list screens,and menu items
*Maintain a consistent look and reduce repetitive code using HTML functions etc
pls visit http://www.packtpub.com/J oomla-Extensions/book

Written by Tessa Blakely Silver, Joomla! Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! PHP Content Management System.Joomla! Template Design is a well-crafted, easy-to-use book and a complete guide to creating Joomla! templates for a website. It guides users through setting up a basic workflow for Joomla! template design, debugging and validating the template code, creating drop-down menus, interactive forms, and dynamic forms for a site, and packaging up the finished template in a ZIP file for users.The book explains how to deal with and use multiple templates in the same site.The book offers guidelines on using animations and other effects in Joomla! templates and provides tricks for tweaking existing templates.Joomla! Template Design is published by Packt and will be released in July 2007. For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/J oomla-Template-Design-ope n-source-PHP-MySQL/book

Create PHP projects that grab and mix data from the likes of Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon, YouTube, MSN Search, Yahoo!, Last.fm, the Internet UPC Database, not to mention the California Highway Patrol Traffic service!
A mashup is a web page or application that combines data from two or more external online sources into an integrated experience. This book is your entryway to the world of mashups and Web 2.0. You will create PHP projects that grab data from one place on the Web, mix it up with relevant information from another place on the Web and present it in a single application.
This book is made up of five real-world PHP projects. Each project begins with an overview of the technologies and protocols needed for the project, and then dives straight into the tools used and details of creating the project.

CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework and is designed to enable, not overwhelm.
The book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible.
This book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.
For more information, please visit http://www.packtpub.com/c odelgniter-php-applicatio n-development-mvc/book

This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using e107. If anyone has never used e107, or even any web content management system before, then this book will walk him through each step in a friendly and accessible way. User does not have to be an experienced web developer or designer to get a great looking site with a full set of functions using this book and e107. The Building Websites with e107 book contains a number of screen shots to reinforce that each step that user perform is correct. Building Websites with e107 book is primarily for entrepreneurs; small office/home office, small businesses and non-profit agencies who would like to have interactive, business and/or e-commerce web sites at a low cost without sacrificing power or usability. No knowledge of PHP programming, Apache, or MySQL is required.

“Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1“is the bestselling Joomla tutorial guide updated for the latest download release. This book is a fast paced tutorial to creating a website using Joomla! 1.5. Beta 1. If users have never used Joomla! or even any web content management system before, then this book will take users through each step in a friendly and accessible way.
From installation, to initial set up and content entry, and then on to customization for users own look and feel, this book will help reader get a working Joomla! based website fast. Users will also learn to build own template and extension.
This book is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors and marketing professionals who want to develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and straightforward process.

“Mastering TypoScript” is a complete guide to understanding and using TypoScript, TYPO3's powerful configuration language. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. With the help of Mastering TypoScript book users will understand the objects, properties, operators, and data types in TypoScript. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. The book helps in designing and developing templates along with extension in TYPO3. TypoScript also allows users to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically.
This book is suitable for TYPO3 developers, administrators, and designers who want to develop fully featured TYPO3 websites using the power of TypoScript.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license.“WordPress Complete” is a beginner's guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It has clear practical coverage of all aspects of WordPress. If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. In working through the book you'll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.

“Creating your MySQL Database” book takes a practical approach, implementing all theoretical concepts with examples. It is a fast-paced tutorial that focuses on critical decisions that you need to make every time you build MySQL databases. It is rich with tips and advice from an experienced practitioner.
“Creating your MySQL Database” is a short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily. This book has practical examples from initial ideas to final designs. This book doesn't set out to make you an expert in data analysis, but it does provide a quick and easy way to raise your game in this essential part of getting your application right.Anyone working with applications that use a MySQL database backend will benefit greatly from the advice and techniques in this book. Written by the creator of the popular phpMyAdmin tool, this book is a short but complete guide on how to design good data structures for MySQL.

“Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management” is a must read for every serious phpMyAdmin user who would like to use this outstanding application to its full power .Whether you are an experienced developer, system administrator, web designer or new to MySQL, phpMyAdmin is a must have tool for anyone who needs to manage MySQL databases and tables.
This book is an upgrade from the previous version that covered phpMyAdmin Version 2.6. Written by a member of the development team, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to helping you unlock the full potential of phpMyAdmin 2.8. You can increase your MySQL productivity and control by discovering the real power of phpMyAdmin 2.8.The book begins with a comprehensive tutorial of phpMyAdmin that systematically explains and demonstrates the potential of this tool. It then goes on to show the less well known and generally under-used features and capabilities of phpMyAdmin in depth.

“The PEAR Installer Manifesto” will show you a new way of organizing your PHP development, by leveraging the full power of the PEAR Installer. PEAR Installer is the preferred PHP software for installing PHP components. You will also learn how to use the power of PEAR to manage your web projects with the PEAR installer to bring the power of versioning and rollbacks to your live website. The synergy of the PEAR Installer and a revision control system like CVS or Subversion is also explored in depth. Finally, you will learn how to embed the PEAR Installer inside your own web application in order to manage plug-ins from a remote server.
“The PEAR Installer Manifesto” covers in detail designing a custom plug-in system for a fictitious blog application. The plug-in system is used to manage templates, and the PEAR Installer is used to manage the details of querying the remote server for templates, handling dependencies between versioning, and doing the actual installation process as well.

A guide, for Web developers, to using PHP language to create dynamically generated Web pages. A comprehensive reference to PHP 2, including the language's evolutions and enhancements. Shows how to install applications, generate HTML, and access databases sing this language, covering every function and property.

PHP4/MySQL Database Applications demonstrates web-application development by presenting seven real, ready-to-use examples starting with a simple guess book and ending with a fully-functional e-commerce site with a shopping cart. Inexperienced users will learn the essentials of working with PHP4 and MySQL so they can start building and customizing database applications for the web right away.

The PHP Developer's Cookbook is a task-based reference designed to give developers easy-to-follow solutions to common problems that they might encounter when using PHP in Web site development. Each solution provides complete code listings along with an in-depth explanation of how and why a particular solution was used. The PHP Developer's Cookbook provides the experienced developer with complete solutions to specific needs they are likely to have while using PHP.

Professional PHP4 will show you exactly how to create state of the art web applications that scale well, utilize databases optimally, and connect to a back-end network using a multi-tiered approach. This book also aims at teaching PHP by coding FTP clients, e-mail clients, some advanced data structures, session management, and secure programming. Topics covered: The whys and wherefores of PHP4; PHP installation on *nix, Windows, and MacOS X; Sessions and cookies, coding FTP clients, network-related function calls, and directory services; PHP support for LDAP; Multi-tiered development using PHP; PHP's interaction with XML; PHP with MySQL; PHP with PostgreSQL and ODBC; Securing, optimizing, and internationalizing PHP applications; PHP extension libraries; A real world employee directory, an online library application, and a GTK interface to the application; Case studies on a user privilege system and a multi-tiered WML-based shopping cart.